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Staggering of hours in London is expected to begin this month.
A conference of all interested associations, to investigate delays to vehicles at Mersey docks, is to be held by the North-western Licensing Authority.
In the recent bad weather, South Midland Motor Services, Ltd., lost only three journeys on its Oxford-London service, which operates seven times a day.
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has condemned the Transport Bill as "anworkable, unjust, and contrary to the principles of British constitutional tradition."
An inquiry into fares for excursions and tours for 1947 will be held by the North-western Licensing Authority at Arkwright House. Manchester, at 10.30 a.m. on March 12. Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd., announces that under an agreement reached in the coachbuilding industry, a five-day week has been operated from March I.
Some of the Regional Fares Committees have asked the Central Fares Committee to press for a 25. per cent. increase in fares on express services, as compared with the pre-war level.
" We must do everything we can to defeat this obsession for possession," said Mr. A. L. Morris, at a meeting of Cheltenham Chamber of Commerce, when a resolution condemning the Transport Bill was passed.
Crossley Motors, Ltd., which has adopted the five-day week, has received orders for double-deckers, with Crossley metal bodies, from Plymouth Corporation (20), Manchester Corporation (50). and Oldham Corporation (10). The Fourth International Conference on Public Cleansing will be held at Amsterdam, Holland, from September 15-19.
The second Sussex Industries Exhibition will be held at Brighton from September 17-27. It is being organized from 3, Marlborough Place, Brighton, 1.
The Austin-Carrimore low-loading articulated outfit described in our issue dated February 7 was supplied to Bradford Electricity Department by Central Garage, Ltd., Bradford.
Leicester and County Chamber Of Commerce has passed a resolution of appreciation of "the remarkable care which has been exercised by transport drivers generally . . . during the recent exceptionally bad conditions."